Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

Thanks Chuck,
I wold rather run the risk of an act of God, than the risk of poorly 
compressed data.
As I have stated clearly, I am not as of yet a true Linux user save for my 
shell experiences.  i do, however, know that the people running my site's 
server have not installed everything nor everything correctly. i do not 
want a compressed file i cannot decompress later.
Also, When I want the data transfered to my own system, I can compress at 
that point.  I would know what decompression tools I have on my end 
at least, once I have a Linux system of some kind.
Karen

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> Karen,
>
> The choice of whether to compress or not is your choice, of course, but
> you should know that the risk you are worried about is virtually
> non-existent in most Linux users view. There is another downside to
> transferring your data without compression. You will be transferring two
> or three times as much data as you would if compressed, it will
> therefore take two or three times as long, and will be two or three
> times more likely to be encounter transmission errors, system
> interruptions, and other acts of God. Those risks are small too, nearly
> as small as compression/decompression failures. But the choice is yours,
> and either way it will work.
>
> Chuck
>
> non-
>
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> I will have no problem transferring the data as i desire.   I have 200 gb 
>> of storage over there,  another 1.8 or so is not going to be noticed. 
>> Besides i hope it will be temporary with my taking it down to my own 
>> system at some point.
>> 
>> If janina is to be believed it is my system, I have two of them remember?
>> I plan to inform them that the data is going to be transfered, and as 
>> they have a rather simple idea of   the shell setup, light years behind 
>> shellworld,  transferring the data as i wish is what I pay for in a 
>> sense.
>> The risk is any of the data not being compressed properly, a chance with 
>> any such program, and one I choose not to take
>> yes the data is still here....now, but it might not have been very easily 
>> indeed.
>> Karen
>> 
>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote:
>> 
>>> You forget what tar is.  It adds everything together, so it compresses 
>>> far better, than any of it would individually.
>>> For example, a gig of text, and maybe a third of binary data, can 
>>> compress down to about 350 MB.
>>> 
>>> Now, keep in mind the system: does Shellworld admin, want you moving a 
>>> Gig of data across its connection, when there is a choice to compress 
>>> it into a few hundred MB?
>>> 
>>> Yes, it is your data, but it is not your system.
>>> 
>>> You still haven't explained what the risk is.  Additionally, it is not 
>>> as if the original data was not still there.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Much of this is music materials and the like which do not compress 
>>>> well when using those programs  as I have tried.
>>>> I do not want to chance it.
>>>> Call me a chicken if you wish but it is my data.  Will the methods 
>>>> suggested do this, no compression involved?
>>>> Karen
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have no intention of risking a zip of any of these files, nor 
>>>>>> do i want to
>>>>> 
>>>>> Risking a zip?  What does that mean?  Where is the risk?  Gnu Zip 
>>>>> (not PK Zip), and Bzip2, are highly stable formats.
>>>>> Tar is an archiving method used for decades on unix.  In fact, 
>>>>> Linux uses bzip2 as its kernel format these days.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This exact method is how many of us who backup shellworld user 
>>>>> data, do it, on a regular basis--tar archived into bzip, or gzip.
>>>>> 
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